Staff Software Engineer
Summary
Staff-level engineer (recruited by Raydar for a fast-growing software company) acting as a senior technical leader who guides system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain — data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work — using Python or Ruby on Rails, distributed systems, and databases/LLMs. Hybrid role, 3 days/week in San Francisco.
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior technical leader who guides design decisions and engineering direction for a major part of a software platform. Take on the toughest technical challenges, collaborate with leaders across engineering and product, and help lift the quality bar across several teams.
What you'll do
- Guide system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain, covering either data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work.
- Take the lead on the most difficult engineering challenges, weighing build, buy and cost options that affect the wider organization.
- Define shared conventions and best practices that help multiple teams deliver better work and help other engineers be more effective.
- Work with product and engineering executives so that technical choices support business priorities.
- Apply modern AI coding assistants routinely when designing, debugging and delivering solutions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a record of steadily growing scope and responsibility.
- Hands-on history running high-traffic, scalable backend systems in production.
- Startup or early-stage experience; candidates from large technology companies should have worked at least once in a startup.
- Strong system design skills for data-intensive and distributed architectures.
- Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models.
- Working experience with Python or Ruby on Rails.
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants in daily development.
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to be in the office 3 days per week.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 217,000 to 410,000 per year
- Equity
- Performance bonus
- Flexible hybrid work
- Professional development support
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
- Full-time
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